WAGE

I. noun see: wed Date: 14th century 1. a payment usually of money for labor or services usually according to contract and on an hourly, daily, or piecework basis, the share of the national product attributable to labor as a factor in production, recompense , reward , ~less adjective II. verb (~d; waging) Etymology: Middle English, to offer surety, put up as a stake, hire, from Anglo-French *~r, gager, from ~ Date: 14th century transitive verb to engage in or carry on , intransitive verb to be in process of occurring